On: Blue-collar wages are surging. Can it last?

[enraged_camel]

It's not about whether they can or can't. It's about the massive liability for the company if they fuck up on the job and cause property damage or bodily injury.

[mgbmtl → enraged_camel]

Are the same standards applied for alcohol?

[Y7ZCQtNo39 → enraged_camel]

Yeah, but a non-pot smoking worker (vs the pot smoker), both sober while on the job, are equally as likely to make a mistake.

[opportune → Y7ZCQtNo39]

That could be true in a causative sense, but not a correlative* one. Not that it's ethical to do so, but by testing for marijuana smokers, businesses/insurance companies may by proxy be testing for other traits likely to cause accidents